Elijah cundey



.UNiTED STATES PATENT e. OFFICE.

ELIJAH CUNDEY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. v

BAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 364,160, dated May 31; 1887.

Application filed March 15, i887. Serial No. 230,980. (No modeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIJAH OUNDEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bats, of which the following is a specification, reference being hadtherein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention pertains to certain new and useful improvements in base-ball bats; and it consists in the detail construction, combination,andarrangement of thejparts,substantially as hereinafter fully set forth, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional view of my improved bat, and Fig. 2 is a detail view thereof.

The object of this invention is to provide a bat so constructed that the weakest point thereof shall be between that portion grasped by the player and the outer thickened end designed to strike the ball in play, to prevent the jarring or stinging sensation consequent upon striking the ball,and to provide a springlike action forthe bat, while at the same time greatly strengthening the same as against all liability of breaking consequent upon removing the center of the handlebody.

In carrying out my invention to accomplish the above objects, I employ bat A, which has a narrow handle, a, tapering from its outer end inwardly to about the center of the bat, at which point the same is widened, as shown, and this latter width is maintained to the extreme end of the bat. It will be seen thatthe thinnest point of the bat is intermediate of the portion grasped by the hands of the player and the widened half, whereby great force is given to the ball in striking the same. Within the center of this bat is formed a long circular aperture, which terminates at its lower end in a taper, b, formed a short distance in the widened portion of the bat.

B is a core or rod, having its upper end widened, as at b, and its lower end tapered, as shown, from a slightly-widenedportion, b, I to the extreme end. This core or rod is designed to be inserted in the central aperture of the bat and its lower pointed end to fit snugly within the tapered end of said aper ture, where it is additionally held by cement or glue applied to said end prior toits insertion in said aperture.

By reference to Fig. 1 it will be seen that when the core'or rod is inserted, as above indicated, the widened portions b b and the tapered end will alone be in contact with the sides of the circular aperture, whereby a continuous space or chamber, 0, is provided between the core or rod and said sides of the aperture. This chamber will give to the handle a spring that will, in striking the ball, be a means of driving the samea greater distance than could otherwise be accomplished, and at the same time prevent stinging of the hands.

Another important ad vantage of my invention is that a bat thus constructed does not require the material of which made to be entirel y perfect, provided the widened. lower half of the bat be of perfect material, as the handle end,even though the material be 1mperfect, is strengthenedby insertion of the core or rod, as above detailed. In bats as heretofore constructed it is well known that the same must be made of perfect material throughout their entire length, and such perfect material it is not always easy to obtain.

I have shown the handle of the bat wrapped with twine; but this is not necessary,unless It is desired to have a more secure means of retaining hold of the bat. 7

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is v 1. As an improved article of manufacture, the bat comprising'the tapered handle having an aperture formed therein terminating in a taper in thelower thickened portion of the bat,

and thecore or rod inserted in said aperture, havingthickenedorwidenedends,thelower one thereof fitting within the tapcrin the widened end of the bat at a point below the end of the tapered handle, substantially as shown, and.

Witnesses:

J osnrrr BoUoHER, THOS. B. RoBINsoN. 

